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Ryan Cecil Jobson - Discussion of The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago

April 29, 2026
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Schermerhorn Extension (Room 457), Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York

Event Description 

Join the Land Research Group to explore theories of sovereignty, extractivism, race, and colonialism to expand our understandings and perspectives of land. This meeting will focus on Discussion of The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago with the book's author. 

Event Speaker

 Ryan Cecil Jobson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago

Event Information

Open to graduate students at New York City universities; registration required. Contact Farah Saqer at [email protected] and Zarino Lanni at [email protected] with any questions. 

This event is supported by a Center for Science and Society Graduate Student Interest Group Grant.